Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 73 Leg.] YEAS--42 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Wicker NAYS--57 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons DeMint Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Baucus The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 42, the nays are 57. Under a previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is withdrawn. The majority leader. ____________________”